This is another of the new Gravekeeper cards that
came out in ABPF, and it is probably the strongest.
It has 1500 ATK and 1200 DEF and is a level 4 DARK
Spellcaster. Tehse stats are great, working with
Necrovalley, Allure, Magicians Circle and of course
Gravekeeper's Spy.

The effect is that you can Tribute a GRavekeeper
monster in order to destroy a monster that your
opponent controls. As Spy gets the card out for
free, the deck actually can get free removal out of
it, since the weakness of hte deck was it's lack of
an innate ability to destroy monsters for good.

I find that a pair of these cards works very
well, as sometimes you need a Spear Soldier more,
and Assailant is vetter in almost every single way.
Basically you will play at least one in the
Gravekeeper deck, a pair if you test it out and 3 if
you want to go a little overboard.

Traditional-1/5
Advanced-3.5/5

Freeza

Gravekeeper's Descendant ...

This isn't a bad card, by any means. It's got
nice round searchable stats with 1500 ATK, plus its
4 stars, Dark, and Spellcaster. all great things.
It's part of the Gravekeeper Family which means good
things too. Namely, it has a bunch of support. It's
really kinda simple. He can tribute other
Gravekeepers to destroy stuff your opponent controls
without limit. Spell, Trap, Monster - face up or
down, whatever. Almost like a Snipe Hunter. The
thing with the Gravekeepers now is that they almost
have TOO many to choose from ... I guess that's not
usually a BAD thing, but it makes it harder to
justify need for inclusion in the deck. The
Descendant is not necessarily "needed" ... the deck
can perform fine without him. But I still think he
would make a nice addition for it, if u felt so
inclined to give him a try. U won't regret it, but u
should probably only just play 1 of him.

Traditional: 3/5
Advanced: 3/5

- FREEZA

N o V a

And we finish off the week with another
Gravekeeper monster, and folks im tired its nearly 2
AM so I apologize but im gonna try and keep this
last review short. Its a 1500 attacker, and as I
stated with Visionary it can be summoned easy by
both Magician's Circle and Magical Dimension. You
can also summon it via Gravekeeper's Spy. With
Necrovalley out Descendant is a 2000 attacker, just
like Spear Soldier and Assailant. Making 3 decent
targets for Deck Devastation Virus if you would like
to run Deck Devastation in your Gravekeeper deck. As
many times a turn as you want you can tribute a
Gravekeeper monster from your field to destroy a
card on the field, but you cannot tribute Descendant
for its own effect. Between Gravekeeper's Chief and
Rite of Spirit, you can destroy multiple cards
easily in a single turn. Descendant is definately a
huge must for any Gravekeeper's deck, the Hand of
the Six Samurai for Gravekeeper's quite literally.

Traditional: 5/5
Advanced: 5/5

Greg

Gravekeeper's
Descendant:

This is the kind of stuff Gravekeeper's needed.
One of the best combos they can pull off now is Spy
into Descendant. This combo gives them
incredible power, as it forces your opponent to
either waste resources getting rid of Descendant
before you get to use his effect, or allow you to
destroy one of their cards essentially for free.
With Gravekeeper's Stele thrown in, the fun can
continue as long as you can keep Gravekeeper's on
the field. Will this make Gravekeepers tier
one? Probably not, but it does get them a
little closer.

Traditional: 2.0 (toooo slow for this
format)
Advanced: 3.0 (only because of the
existence of Spy)

Otaku

Foolish fools! There
are no women
in Yu-Gi-Oh! There
are only extremely
girly men! And I am
the most girly of
them all!

If you haven’t seen this card’s
artwork, we see a suspiciously
familiar looking blonde
Gravekeeper.
Gravekeeper’s Descendant
thankfully falls into the classical
Gravekeeper mold.He is Dark, opening up a wide
world of support.He is a Level 4 Monster, so
he’s easy to drop into play.He is a Spellcaster, adding
some decent tricks to get him into
play.He has 1500 ATK, which means
just about every major search card
tied into his stats works:
Sangan,
Mystic Tomato,
Gravekeeper’s Spy,
Magician’s Circle, etc.The 1200 DEF is passable: at
least it takes something more than a
Krebon to take him out in
battle.You can boost his stats with
Necrovalley and/or
Gravekeeper’s Priestess, which
easily ups him into beatstick
territory.

Gravekeeper’s Descendant
has a simple but useful effect:
sacrifice another
Gravekeeper monster to destroy 1
card your opponent controls.Obviously the major
restriction is what you have to
sacrifice: no pulling an
Exiled Force and sacrificing
itself, or using
Scapegoat the turn before so you
can trade it for four of your
opponent’s cards.It is hardly a problem, but
you should note that you can’t
destroy something you control.Pretty rare that you’d want
to do that, but it does happen.

Gravekeeper’s
decks had a minor amount of monster
removal in the past from
Gravekeeper’s Guard, but it was
only bounce.Now they have actual
destruction and can hit the
backfield.Spent copies of
Gravekeeper’s Spy and
Gravekeeper’s Guard are more
useful than ever now.The notorious
Gravekeeper capacity for
swarming can now be used to clear
the field

As you can tell I like this card.I’ve always been fond of
Gravekeeper’s decks, and have
experimented with them, including
the less seen burn variant.Here this card makes it
easier to maintain control, and
creates a good partner for
Gravekeeper’s Cannonholder:Use
Inferno Reckless Summon on a
Special Summoned
Gravekeeper’s Curse in
triplicate.Normally, you’d then launch
all of them with
Cannonholder for a total of 3600
points of burn damage.Now you can alternatively
settle for 1500 points of burn, then
at worst kill off the two monsters
your opponent got off of
Inferno Reckless Summon and the
original.If your opponent didn’t get
any Monsters out of
Inferno Reckless Summon, you can
generate a lot of advantage.

Ratings

Traditional:
3/5 – Thanks to
Necrovalley being anti-meta and
yesterday’s card being so hard to
kill,
Gravekeeper’s Descendant has a
home in Traditional.

Advanced:
4/5 – Clearly a rating for use in
Gravekeeper’s decks, where you
should have at least one copy in
your main deck, probably two so you
have a back-up.Three is overkill, though
mostly because you need room for
other great
Gravekeeper’s monsters and
support.

Summary

Marik… I mean
Gravekeeper’s Descendant is a
great card for any
Gravekeeper’s deck: beatdown,
control, burn, or any combination
will still value the ability to
destroy opposing Monsters, Spells,
and Traps.With
Necrovalley to boost his stats
and deny your opponent access to
most Graveyard effects, he’ll even
be able to whack them upside the
head for good measure.

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